After all, people who watch anime are pathetic virgin losers, so they will SURELY have awful memories of that period.So why shower them with people having fun and having not only gfs, but literally harems falling at mc's feet?

>>120407198It's the infantilization of modern adults. In the West adults are obsessed with adaptations of young adult fiction and comic books, in the East with their high school years and anime/manga. Yes, even many Japanese films are about teenagers and young adults. It wasn't always like that.

I work in a Japanese highschool and the kids who are super into anime and shit aren't that weird.

I think it's mostly just escapism that's rooted in their real life because high school is hell in Japan. The amount of time they spend studying and prepping for exams is insane. Doesn't seem that weird to use anime as an escape from the reality of school and daydream about a bunch of cute girls on your dick or supernatural shit breaking up the monotony or whatever.

>>120408474I'm talking about organic depression. Depression can be exogene that is your reaction to some event like death of your loved one or life's crisis and endogene that caused by organic disorder. Some drugs can cause disorder of ferments in your brain and trigger organic depression or mania as side effect.

>>120407198Well, when your working life is somehow worse than school whilst your entire economy slides into the 2nd recession in 15 years, escapism and infantilism is an easy way out.

Plus when you think about it; if the majority of mangaka follow the "write what you know" maxim for at least their first work, they're not going to have much more marketable experience than "I went to highschool once, let's add X".

>why is high school so prevalent in anime and manga?School life in Japan is wonderful. After graduation, all you have is a life of hard work, almost no vacation, and sometimes you don't even get paid for overtime and overwork.

School life is literally the best time in an average Japanese person's life.

>>120409453>5 and a half days a week.>often compulsory after school clubs>If you want to get into a decent university, you better be a genius or spend your little free time at a cram school.>Intense academic pressure and normal teenaged/childish bullshit.

Nah, fuck that, I'd rather my education system. The only Japanese thing I'd like to see exported are the cultural festivals; literally the only fun in a schooling year.

>>120409542In away it is fun.You don't have a fucking boss who trash-talk you behind your back.You don't have to feed your wife and kid.You don't have to work after 6pm and still have to join drinking party and shit to socialize with your co-workers who's not above backstab you and get you fired.

Really it's just likely to be knock on effects to their main exports due to worldwide poor consumer confidence, and that flows down to their national markets, etc. Plus there's the weakness in the labour market, and I can't imagine a strong showing in outside investment coming in.

Probably the only industry growing in Japan right now at a decent rate is the arms industry.

>>120408295Yeah Japs are pretty workaholic, thats why people are really depressed in japanThey used to work like 18 hours a day.Thus the suicide rates.But now they lowered the work hours to normal 9 to 6 work shifts. For most companies it is illegal to work people without extra pay anymore.If not for the radiation japan would be a nice place to live in a few years

>>120409624>>120409602drugs are the absolute worst for of escapism. Not only does it harm you but it fucking does nothing to help you, it's easy to tell someone who does drugs apart from others. This is why there's so many stoners and shit users on /a/ since it's full of social rejects trying to escape their problems. At least, if you want to use anime as escapism it won't harm you, you'll just have shit taste.

>>120407304>It wasn't always like that.Tristan & Yseult, Romeo and Juliet...It was always like that, young characters are perfect for character developement because they are in their "learning" years. That's why a lot of anime takes place in highschool as well.Not only that, but there's also a big young adult/adolescent demographic that can't be ignored.

That said, I'd like to see more anime with protagonists in college like Koufuku, Hidamari and Genshiken. More non-highschooler young heroes and adult protags would be nice as well.

>>120409490>Sounds like Europe :^)Europe has one of the most worker friendly environments in the world. You get compulsory vacations, paternity leaves, all paid for by taxpayers. Some in France are trying to force a six hour workday.

How does high school > college work in japan? I mean, in my country finishing high school and going to college is almost law. Someone that finishes high school and doesn't go to college is extremely rare and usually people look at them with bad eyes.

I'm not so sure how it is in japan. Is "not going to college" more acceptable there?

>>120410039>Some in France are trying to force a six hour workday.I wonder where you got this. This "some" is probably just a few guys that nobody ever ears about and who never makes the news.Actually the right wing french politicians have been claiming that we need to stop the 35h week, but despite having been in power for ten years they never got around actually doing it.

Tatami Galaxy just for another good example. Welcome to the NHK too; it's often the stuff that focuses on how poorly prepared people are for adulthood that makes the most interesting viewing. But that comes from someone in that demographic.

I won't kid myself though; if it's well done, watching adolescents flail around trying to be functioning people will always be a bit compelling. If it's well done.

>>120410358Maybe thats something the new generation is going to change? I mean, japanese people that are entering the job market right now are probably the first generation to grow up with internet since their early days.

>>120410364That just sounds like a normal everyday Internet cafe anon. It was specifically for watching anime though? Huh. I guess it's not that strange to have a cafe directly geared for watching anime as a gimmick, but I mean, normal everyday Internet cafés have massive libraries of manga to read and movies on demand. Restricting yourself to anime or only seeking an otaku clientele is a little weird. Unless it was in the middle of Akiba, and if so I didn't see it.

>>120410424I had a Japanese exchange years ago and we're still friends and we chat; he was trying to get into nautical engineering, the jobs were too scarce, so he's doing an extra year, after already doing a graduate, to get the certs needed for a prefecture job.

Basically, with the recession the job market will only constrict more, the work ethic won't change anytime soon.

>>120410641They simply don't want to. You have internet, video games, music, movies - there is just so fucking much you can waste your time with. I wouldn't want to sacrifice my time on other people when I could just shitpost on /a/ instead you know.

>>120409766>9 to 6 work shiftsBS, I've been in front of office buildings and saw people leave at 11 PM and friend in Tokyo told me that they oftentimes work 10+ hours, even in retail>If not for the radiation japan would be a nice place to live in a few yearsUnless you live within close proximity of Fukushima, you couldn't care about the radiation

>>120410948But I wasn't proved wrong at all; that anon literally just supplied an extra two random examples of anime that don't feature a highschool student as the MC; when the topic of conversation was about university/college students as MCs.

>>120411082Plus vite on s'enfoncera dans la mouise et plus vite on en sortira donc c'est pas plus mal sur le long terme.>>120411100I'd say even as a richfag it's not a good city to live in unless you're a hardcore liberal self-hater.

>>120411325I still think Tatami galaxy is the best in that genre, it nails that intense sense of ennui when you realise shit's gotten real and you actually have to start having adult relationships/responsibilities.

>>120411654I'm not sure if it's a great marathon show or not; I watched it through in one go, and it certainly helped picking out all the little details and call backs through out, but I guess if you're having trouble getting through it, marathoning it could just fatigue you.

I really do think it's one of the best anime about your 20s out there though.

>implying being an adult is eventful enough to base an anime onHow would that go anyway? And don't bring examples like Working! or Servant x Service where you have cute employees doing cute things where in real life no one could get away with the shit they do there. Besides we have Shirobako which portrays how the totem pole in any office works.I'd know. I spend 10-11 hours a day at the office working/pretending to work.

>>120410307Power wires free-floating in the air can carry more current before overheating.It's cheaper to set up poles than to dig utility tunnels. Easier to expand the grid too. Underground wiring is a luxury, really.No digging into wires in your garden.

>>120407198For one thing, HS is an easy settings. Your space, activities, even people you sit with are shared and externally dictated by others. This create an enclosed box where creative artist can make things happen without the real need for setting nething up. Plus HS age kids are, well you know, a little chunnibouish and less bound by circumstances, not to mention less logical, than adults, so they can star in those escapism and have those escapedes we all enjoy. I can't imagine working JP adult worrying about their first kiss or getting excited over home made bento, really. HS life is the coming of age for most people, before life force them to face reality, so that they would have one last shot at their youth before that innocence melt away into adulthood and its associated trouble of Japanese adult life.

>>120409569>Only 20 daysI think every ordinary school or class big events that are held by students are usually started to be prepared 1 month before. It won't feel like a long time actually, and it's more the process that should be enjoyed.

>>120413097>manga and hentai sites are starting to be blockedin my country>DMCAs>my local anime forum is getting more and more empty of the veterans, only different newfags are come and go periodically but no one ever stays>Only 1-3 anime per season that are interesting to be talked in /a/>All fansub has left us. No karaoke lyrics anymore.>anime itself is getting more and more empty with less plots and messages to be conveyed, and more sexual fanservices that I'm already too fed up with>now even moot left usI think God is really exist and hear my parents' prayings lately for me to come back to reality and be responsible with my college life.

>>120407330I agreed with that. I was raised in Asia half of my life, then I went to study in America. As I recalled my time in Asia, there were quite a few kids are really into Anime and shit, but they don't get look down by it. And honestly, their parents doesn't give a shit about it, as long they have good grade.at school and stay away from drug.

On the other hand, I feel like the school in America is just compiled with senseless bullshit and unnecessary drama. And kids are so worry about getting their dick wet all the time or getting fucked up.

I wouldn't say the adult life is flawless compared to high school life. I do missed the time when I don't have to worry about paying bills and just hanging out with friends. But I'm just glad that I was able to find a steady job right after high school and get my life going.

>>120413504It's easy to say that anime is dying these days; and that is used to be so good!

that's only because we remember the good stuff; the giant piles of crap that were made from the 70s onwards are just utterly forgotten. In another 2 decades we'll only remember the good shows from this time period, no one will recall all the shit.

And then we'll grumpily declare that anime's dying.

It's always dying, and it'll never stop dying, it'll exist eternally in a state of not-death. Look upon it's works, ye mighty, and despair, for anime will out live you lazy fucks.

>>1204150794chan is gonna be dead soon enough.The guys who are going to run 4chan will run it into the ground before long. Only reason it's been kept aloft for so long is because mootles loved it. With pressure on the past tense.

>>120413504tfw soon the age of piracy and neetness will die and the next generations are actually going to be normal again. Meanwhile our current generation is going to be a giant black hole in humanity that doesn't contribute with nothing.

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